Wordpress is largely preferred CMS on web hosting accounts. After building a website or blog on a Wordpress platform, you need to configure various settings with it. For configuring these settings you have to log in as admin at ‘yourdomain.com/wp-admin’. Here you should go to ‘Dashboard’ and click on ‘Settings’. Here you are on the main Setting page where you can find the following options where you can enter the information about website or blog.

Blog Title – Enter the main ‘Title’ of your blog here.

Tagline – This is related to the main subject of your website or blog and can be filled with promotional keywords.

WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) – Both of these fields mostly contain the home page URL of your website or blog.

E-mail address – You should enter an email ID which will be used by the administrator of the Website or Blog.

Membership – This is a small ‘checkbox’ for Applying or relieving the restrictions over the registrations.

New User Default Role – When someone is allowed to register an account with the Website or Blog, these are the options found in the drop down list and allow you to set his role and user level as by default. There are generally five options that can be found in this list as following

‘Subscriber, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor’

Timezone – You can set your desired ‘Timezone’ from here.

Date Format – Following are the date formats available which you can use to display the dates with the material on your Website or Blog.

Month DD, YYYY

YYYY/MM/DD

MM/DD/YYYY

DD/MM/YYYY

Custom – (Refer to ‘Customization Options With Date Formats In Wordpress’)

Time Format – Similar to Date format, you can also set a format for the time so that it will appear in a specific format of your choice.

Week Starts On – It’s simply to set the starting day of week according to your preference.

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Being an open source platform, MySQL is one of the greatest utility for web hosting services providers and their clients to manage their databases, furthermore it can be used with both most widely used platforms of Windows web hosting as well as Linux Hosting. MySQL is a fast, robust, secured with encryption and also has very easy installation process. Following are few commands mostly used while operating MySQL.

ps -auxwww | grep mysql

This command is used for Checking whether MySQL Server is running or not

./bin/mysqld_safe &

For Starting mysql you should use this command

./mysqladmin -u root shutdown

After the work completed for Shutting down the MySQL you need to use this command.

cd mysql/bin
./mysqladmin -u root processlist
./mysqladmin -u root kill ProcessID
Any help required about mysql can be opened by enterting this command.

This is a useful command to check which query is running on which host, from which location query has been fired , which query has locked which table etc.

cd mysql/bin

This command is used to Kill processes

mysql> help alter;

REPAIR TABLE TableName

You can Repair a table by using this command.

Note :- Few more MySQL commands will shared in upcoming posts.

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Linux is the most widely used OS by the web hosting services providers to host the servers of their clients. Operating a Linux based server is not as easy as operating a windows based one. As Linux is a command driven OS one should be very well familiar with the commands required for particular operations. Here I would like to share some most frequently used commands while working on a Linux Hosting Server.

Hostname - This command is used for finding host/domain name and IP address

hostname –d displays the domain name the machine belongs to
hostname –f displays the fully qualified host and domain name
hostname –i displays the IP address for the current machine
ping - This command is used to test network connection. Testing the network connection is necessary to ensure establishment and Timing information as to the speed of the connection.
Ifconfig – This command is used to view the current network adapter configurations and it is also useful to check the transmit (TX) or receive (RX) errors.
netstat – It is very useful to find connection to and from the host, routing tables, interface statistics with the hosts. Furthermore you can use ‘netstat -g’ to find out all the multicast groups (network) subscribed by this host.
nslookup – It is used for tracing the hostname by entering the IP address, you can also find all the IP addresses for a given domain name.
telnet – It connects destination host via telnet protocol, if telnet connection established on any port then you can predict the connectivity between two hosts is working without any problem.
traceroute – It is useful to view the number of hops and response time to get to a remote system or web site is traceroute.
Finger – When you want to view a user’s login name, real name, terminal name and write status, then you can use this command.

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Reseller Web Hosting is one of the best online business available in India as well as all over the world. If we studied this Reseller Hosting India market deeply then we can come to know that the Windows Reseller Hosting has more demand than the Linux Reseller Hosting. Following are the reasons for it which I would like to share through this post.

Development and Design of a Webpage

Windows Reseller hosting platform supports to ASP (Active Server Pages) which is a Microsoft based application and highly used in website development and design, ASP is widely known for availability of various tools and scripts for use of web development and design. This also make you able to feel the suitability according to your requirements.

RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)

On Windows platform one can take advantage of relational database management system which plays very important role for SQL based server.

Compatibility

When compared with the Linux, Windows comes with better compatibility options, which also helps to deal with most of the devices required for a web hosting. Ever websites running on a Unix system can be hosted on a Windows reseller hosting server.

Unique cPanel

Availability of unique cPanel is one of the most important function available with Windows Reseller Hosting, which makes you able to handle and manage all the accounts hosted on a Reseller Hosting Server. In Linux Reseller Hosting you need to create multiple cPanel account for multiple clients.

As above we saw how Windows Reseller Server can have an edge over the Linux Reseller hosting server but you also need to be prepared to pay the extra amount as Windows OS are not for free of charge.

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Generally hosting a wordpress blog is considered as a critical task by normal people but its not as complicated as they really think. There are two ways through which a Wordpress website or a Wordpress blog. First one is free one and do not required that much deep technical knowledge and the second one is paid one because for that one will hat to go for a website hosting account and own independent domain name for your website or blog. Free wordpress service is available at wordpress.com, one can register for a account for free and create a blog but remember that your blog’s url will include the word wordpress.com always, i.e. yourblog.wordpress.com. This type of blogs are mostly useful for the people who just want to maintain their blog as a personal level as a hobby and as non-commercial one. The paid option is mainly focused towards professional bloggers who are conduction their blogs as a profession and looking for some business from it. In this type they are free to use their own domain name. In this type one need to to buy a shared hosting account which is also widely know as ‘Web Hosting With cPanel‘ as the account will be used for just a blog so you need not to worry about any more expensive option like windows vps hosting or a Dedicated Server a shared account is very cheaply priced and provide enough resources to hosting and manage a blog.

After visiting wordpress.com you will have to download the latest available software with their latest versions. For knowing the detail installation process please visit below url

http://www.host.co.in/knowledgebase/installation-guide-for-wordpress

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We know, mainly virtualization is connected with either Windows VPS or Linux VPS services, but as far as typical web hosting services are concerned from people’s point of view, they always think of number of websites on a single web server but in Desktop virtualization process it is not necessary to decrease number of computers and contract the things in to a single server. Reduction in the cost of infrastructure and management required to server maintenance is one of the most important feature of Desktop virtualization. Through manageable desktop environment, modified provision of systems and other devices of client side one can notice the benefit of Desktop virtualization and additionally the important factor like bandwidth is used in more improved manner. Upgrades are easily possible and available to servers in terms of storage and network stuff very easily.

A user uses data and applications from the similar server on which is running and streaming those applications and data, and this allows it to provide improved security to the applications as well as an improvement in transmission of desktop processed workload from client side to the hosted location. Adopting to virtualization also enable to client to split up any important or confidential data and applications and make it secure from any type of suspicious and unauthorized offends. Different level of security patches and permissions can be assigned to virtual machines by network administrators.

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In today’s hosting market there are lot of web Hosting providers available with attractive discounts and special offer to drive the customers towards their web hosting companies. When a person is totally new to all this then obviously he get confused about all these things and marketing slogans of Web Hosting companies, and if the he is weak in terms of technical knowledge then things become worse for him. Following are some features I would like to share with these type of people so that they can get exact idea about his needs and available options in the market.

Cpanel:

These are the very basic but most important tools to be included in hosting services, cPanel is one of the the best control panel for the purpose of managing website and analyze many things about that particular website. Important tasks like creation of new email Ids, parking multiple domains, taking and restoring backups of data are performed throughout the cPanel.

Fantastico:

This is another great utility which is used for installation of various web applications. Interface becomes very easy because of Fantastico, web applications like forums, blogs, other open source tools can be installed with a few clicks.

Add-on domains:

Newbies usually get confused when they don’t have enough knowledge about Add-on domains feature which makes it possible to host many website within a single web hosting account. One can add multiple domains and sub-domains using a single shared hosting account.

Shopping carts:

Shopping carts are known as application specially developed for e-commerce websites. Because of shopping carts a webmaster can sell products online and receive payments through online transactions.

Dedicated IP address

Many people have heard about dedicated hosting and they think that dedicated IP concept is related to it only, but the fact is different as dedicated IP can be obtained to keep your website’s identity unique one which helps your website to remain unrelated from other websites which may be fraud or of spammer’s hence may harmful for sharing the same IP address with them. Dedicated IPs are also beneficial from search engine optimization point of view.

There are many other features involved in a web hosting package but here I feel the above one to be highlighted specially while making a web hosting deal.

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Content Delivery Network which is also know with its short form as CDN is a group of highly optimized servers from all over the world, though this group is widely spread one but logically its unique. The system is designed in such a way they user’s request will be redirected towards the closest server to him which produce best results for the websites which have large number of visitors from all over the world. This system works impressively by making a unique system of various web hosting servers which contains data which is placed at various points in network to optimize the bandwidth access to clients all over the network.

Few people might get problem while accessing the images and videos from the servers from long regions but if the the same data made available on a CDN network then it will reflect higher accessibility with higher speeds. The working of CDN is based on specifying the directory on a server which pulls all the files. One need to go into W3 total cache setting to enable the CDN function and make the required changes in URL.

The only drawback of this CDN transparency towards user-side, a user can identify if a CDN is accessed or not, because a delivered URL can be different that the requested URL. But as he is going to access the service much faster then he should not been so worried about it.

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